Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [adv] [art] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And despite his hectic intercontinental schedule — commuting from his home in Paris to his musical duties in Chicago and Berlin ( where he has recently been appointed head of the Berlin Staatsoper ) — he always tries to set aside an hour or so every afternoon to sit in a cafe , nursing a coffee ( while , of course , veiling himself in a cloud of cigar smoke ) . |
| 2 | In determining whether the offer of alternative work is suitable , the tribunal takes into account factors such as status , skills required , pay , hours of work and whether it involves additional travelling time and/or expense or perhaps a need to move house . |
| 3 | The co-option of an industrialist or businessman may be a statement about school being a place for training the future work force or just an attempt to involve someone with business acumen to sort out the LMS accounts . |
| 4 | Sometimes it is best to wait for 3 to 6 months or even a year to do this . |
| 5 | There are many medical treatments for incontinence , which include medicines , exercises , ‘ retraining ’ the bladder and occasionally an operation to repair the bladder . |
| 6 | Those who would buy more than unc logically opt for the two-part tariff and thereby the right to buy extra units at |
| 7 | This may be true in the rise of European nationalism , although the need for a uniform language arises also because of the competition between States and therefore the drive to establish single national markets . |
| 8 | Although the building is of more or less one period , it is still nonetheless a higgledy-piggledy place to find one 's way about in , as though the builders had not planned it as a whole but acted on whims and perhaps the need to accommodate an expanding family . |
| 9 | In the event , John Conteh dropped down a division and Johnson took his place , proving the legitimacy of his claim by beating two contenders and then the champion to become the first black heavyweight champion of Great Britain . |
| 10 | He used to export half his rice crop , but for four years there has been no export and so no incentive to grow more than he needs . |
| 11 | If the latter applies , there is no thing in action and so no property to steal . |
| 12 | With difficulty she rolled his dead weight first to one side and then the other to search his pockets . |
| 13 | This means you have two choices to make — not only a suitable colour for the mounting card but also the background to go with it . |
| 14 | Children need not only a ‘ lexicon ’ of images but also the ability to cope with a number of conventions . |
| 15 | ‘ A dour man , ’ Buckingham observed , ‘ with bounding ambition but not the talent to match . ’ |
| 16 | Libraries will not only provide a carefully-selected and well-displayed collection of books but also the opportunity to hear stories , paint , draw and make models , make and use puppets , take part in drama sessions , and so on . |
| 17 | The fame of his treatment spread , bringing four hundred visitors or so a year to swell the local income . |
| 18 | In its view , there is not the time , the manpower or even the need to spy in the conventional sense . |
| 19 | Despite the tears , Athelstan still wondered if her adultery made her an assassin or perhaps an accomplice to murder . |
| 20 | I would like to suggest that an answer to this question should address broader concerns than simply a desire to make a representation of appearance . |
| 21 | In other words the branch is part of the parent and therefore the requirement to hold two lots of reserves is really contrary to the spirit of the directive . |
| 22 | It is more likely that in many situations there is a conflict of interest between capital and labour over this issue and thus a need to negotiate the outcome . |
| 23 | Each weekend begins on Friday evening with supper , followed by an introductory talk , film or video , night prayers and then the freedom to sit and chat or go to bed . |
| 24 | The rally gives owners an opportunity to meet fellow enthusiasts and even the chance to buy . |
| 25 | The decision was attacked the following day by Drazen Budisa , chairman of the opposition Croatian Social Liberal Party ( HSLS ) , who complained that " several thousands of inhabitants of Vukovar imprisoned in Serbian camps " and " tens of thousands of Croats from Central Bosnia about whom we have no information " would be unable to obtain their Croatian nationality and thus the right to vote . |
| 26 | The trouble is that the public backs the law but not the means to make it work . |
| 27 | Many cities and counties are little better placed , as each layer of government passes down the spending obligations but not the money to fulfil them . |
| 28 | IBM Corp 's IBM Personal Computer Co has added two members in the IBM Speech Recognition Family , VoiceType Control for Windows and VoiceType 2 : VoiceType Control for Windows offers customers with an 80386SX processor and up the ability to manipulate the Windows 3.1 environment and existing Windows 3.1 applications with spoken commands such as File Save , Font Bold and Next Window ; VoiceType Control for Windows costs $130 , works with Sound Blaster audio boards , and is speaker-independent ; VoiceType 2 is designed for general dictation and input to MS-DOS applications , and enables users to continue to control their existing applications , such as word processing , databases or spreadsheet , simply by talking ; it comes ready to use with ‘ many popular software products such as Quicken , WordPerfect 5.1 , dBase and more ’ , and users can add their own commands ; VoiceType 2 , with the IBM M-Audio Capture and Playback Adaptor , runs on 80386SX and above personal computers and automatically adapts to a speaker 's unique voice pattern and allows for accents and other individual speech characteristics ; it costs $2,200 and will be available in late May . |
| 29 | I settled in pretty quickly , though suffering a bit from culture shock and more from the realisation that I was semi-illiterate in the Thai language : I had the ability to communicate verbally but at a child 's level and almost no ability to read . |
| 30 | From Scotland Yard , Nigel Cramer and six officers set off in two patrol cars , their sirens howling up Whitehall and down the Mall to pick up Park Lane and the road north out of London . |